LOS ANGELES — Five players who were on the U.S. team in last year's World Cup top a 24-man roster that was called up Wednesday for the national team's first training camp of the new World Cup cycle.
Midfielder Kellyn Acosta and defender Aaron Long of LAFC, center back Walker Zimmerman of Nashville SC, FC Dallas forward Jesús Ferreira and former New York City goalkeeper Sean Johnson, who were all on the American team in Qatar, are among 16 domestic-based players summoned by assistant coach Anthony Hudson, who will run the weeklong camp while U.S. Soccer continues its investigation into former manager Gregg Berhalter.
Berhalter, whose four-year contract expired Dec. 31, a month after he led the U.S. into the World Cup's round of 16, admitted earlier this month that he had a physical altercation with the woman who later became his wife while both were 18-year-old college freshmen. The federation hired an Atlanta law firm to look into the incident.
